President Obama continues not to be Jesus
June 6th, 2009
From MESH, Walter Laqueur’s pithy response to worries that Obama’s speech to “the Muslim world” offered style over substance:
What of the impact of the speech? An unfair question: soft power, however desirable, has its limits. Pericles’ funeral oration did not lead to the resurrection of the dead and there is still much sin in the world despite the Sermon on the Mount.